Adobe ColdFusion remains one of today’s significant Web services tools and frameworks, and stands to become even more important as a possible primary tool for cloud development as well. As important as ColdFusion is and continues to become, we thought it would be a good idea to tap the leading authority on ColdFusion, the Fusion Authority. We asked this community to compile the most important issues in their developer and user experiences into one single volume—an anthology of the most current technical articles published in the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update.

In it, you’ll get the following:

• The best and brightest ColdFusion expertise available today, from inside and outside of Adobe
• The most up-to-date content with the latest releases of ColdFusion
• Case studies and instances where ColdFusion is used in cloud-based development

Rather than take a soup-to-nuts approach that covers every single topic, including those that most people have learned already, this book takes specific items of interest and explains them so that you can hit the ground running, rather than having to wait until you’ve read the entire book.

What you’ll learn

• Why ColdFusion is important for your Web Services and cloud application development
• How the latest versions of ColdFusion can build cloud applications
• How to integrate the latest ColdFusion has to offer with Flex and other Adobe tools in your workflow
• How to use ColdFusion in pragmatic ways through examples, illustrations, and case studies
• How to implement ColdFusion best practices, testing techniques, and more

Who this book is for

This book is tailored for ColdFusion developers specifically, but many articles may be of use to general programmers as well.

Table of Contents

1. Working with Applicationcfc
2. Applicationcfc Reference
3. From User-Defined Functions to ColdFusion Components
4. onMissingTemplate()— Error Handler and So Much More
5. “Say What?” Handling Unknown Messages with onMissingMethod()
6. PDF Support in ColdFusion
7. Image Processing in ColdFusion
8. Tuning Your Java Virtual Machine: Finding Your Ideal JVM Settings Through Metrics Log Analysis
9. The Shoemaker and the Asynchronous Process Elves
10. Asynchronous Gateways Step-by-Step
11. You Might Have a Performance Bottleneck If...
12. An Introduction to Consuming and Deploying Web Services in ColdFusion
13. Web Services and Complex Types
14. Type Validation When Returning an Array of Components
15. Sending E-mail the Right Way
16. ColdFusion and Microsoft Exchange
17. BlazeDS
18. Object-Oriented Programming: Why Bother?
19. The Object-Oriented Lexicon
20. Design Patterns: Exposing the Service Layer
21. Beans and DAOs and Gateways, Oh My!
22. SOA for the Rest of Us
23. How Base Classes Can Help You Generate Your Applications
24. An Introduction to Frameworks
25. Fusebox 5 Fundamentals
26. Mach-II Fundamentals
27. Model-Glue Fundamentals
28. ColdSpring Fundamentals
29. Reactor Fundamentals
30. Developing Applications with Transfer
31. FW/1: The Invisible Framework
32. Separating Layout from Logic
33. Creating Dynamic Presentations in ColdFusion
34. Working with JSON and cfajaxproxy
35. Prototyping for Interface Driven Architecture: Easing the Transition from Prototype to Application
36. Turbo Charging Eclipse
37. An Introduction to ColdFusion Builder
38. The ColdFusion Debugger Explained: Interactive Step Debugging for ColdFusion 8 and 9
39. Getting Started with Subversion
40. Subversion in the Workflow
41. Advanced Subversion
42. Automating Your Development with Ant